Gary O'Connor
Photograph By John Murray
Moments before entering a packed gymnasium at Walsh Elementary School in Waterbury to engage hundreds of teachers opposed to his education reform legislation, Governor Dannel Malloy, middle, paused to collect his thoughts. Waterbury attorney, Gary O'Connor, was a law school classmate of Malloy's at Boston College and is pictured on the left. Waterbury Democrat Party Chairman Ned Cullinan is pictured on the right. The Observer is producing a photo essay and article on the evening and will post them soon. Stay tuned.
Into The Future
Story and Photographs By John Murray
It’s exactly the sort of deal that many in Waterbury imagined when John Rowland took an influential post at the Waterbury Chamber of Commerce two years ago, and was declared the “economic czar” of Waterbury. Rowland was a three-term Congressman and had been governor of Connecticut for nine years, so clearly the man had contacts in high places.
The River
Column By John Murray
Colored dyes stained rivers throughout the industrial Northeast. By Lynn Cherry
It was the best day the Naugtauck River has experienced in 100 years. The river received so much attention on February 24th that one could imagine her embarrassed, and blushing red for old time sake. This blush, however, was triggered by admirers gushing at her beauty, not from the red dyes that were pumped into her as industrial waste into a glorified toilet.
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